Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and senior BJP leader L.K. Advani will be sharing the stage along with other top party leaders during the BJP’s “Karyakarta Mahakumbh” (party workers’ rally) in the state capital on Wednesday.

The London Olympics proved to be a watershed in Olympic Gold Quest’s history with a chunk of the country’s medal winners being backed by the organization. Though OGQ has kept a low profile it has successfully managed to attract funds and provide best facility to India’s Olympic medal hopefuls.

The government on Tuesday made a landmark policy decision to put in place the methodology for auctioning coal blocks, providing for upfront and production-linked payments and benchmarking of coal sale prices.

The Congress and the BJP are unlikely to follow the “sitting-getting” formula in the coming Assembly elections in four states after realising that the incumbency is going against sitting legislators, ministers than the incumbent chief ministers.

The drive to succeed was writ large on East Bengal players’ faces as they scripted history of sorts after securing their maiden berth in the AFC Cup semi-finals, overcoming a spirited Semen Padang playing in front of a vociferous home crowd here on Tuesday.

In an apparent damage-control mode on Tuesday — a day after his explosive utterance that the Army transfers money to ministers in Jammu and Kashmir as part of “stabilising work” in the state — former Army Chief Gen. V.K. Singh (Retd) said the money was not meant to be a “bribe” but was rather meant to win the hearts and minds of people in the state through various welfare activities.

Union law and justice minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and BJP stating that they had a habit of criticising whatever happened in the country without offering any alternatives.

Grandmaster S.P. Sethuraman was back in the reckoning with a thumping victory over Antonios Pavlidis of Greece in the 10th round of the World Junior Chess Championship at Kocaeli, Turkey.

The Indian cricket board is set to slap life ban on its former IPL chairman Lalit Modi as the Delhi High Court has given go ahead for BCCI’s special general meeting scheduled to be held in the city on Wednesday. Modi, who was at the helm of cash-rich league from 2008 to 2010, is facing charges of financial irregularities.

After 16 months in judicial custody, YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy walked out of Chanchalguda Central Prison on Tuesday evening at 4 pm after getting bail.